try your luck at our nature QUIZ

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. What is the collective name for a group of frogs?

2. What is the fastest animal on two legs?

3. What does a kangaroo; an anteater and a seahorse have in common?

4. What is the national bird of New Zealand?

5. In the TV show, what kind of animal was ?Gentle Ben??

6. The body of the Egyptian Sphinx was based on which animal?

7. What is a female donkey called?

8. What is the distinguishing feature of a Manx cat?

9. What colour are the spots on a common ladybird?

10. What is the most intelligent subhuman primate? 

11. What type of creature is a mandrill?

12. What is a young penguin called?

13. Which country has the most Asian elephants in their natural habitat?

14. Which has the most teeth? Reptiles, fish, or mammals?

15. What can be minke, grey, or bowhead?

16. Which is the fastest? Hare, horse, greyhound?

17. Is the Tasmanian Devil a marsupial?

18. Which of the senses is the weakest in almost all primates?

19. Which extinct flightless bird has the Latin name Didus Ineptus?

20. Which fish are members of the class Asteroidea?

ANSWERS

1. Army

2. Ostrich

3. Pouch To Carry Their Young

4. Kiwi

5. Bear

6. Lion

7. Jenny

8. It Has No Tail

9. Black

10. Chimpanzee

11. Monkey

12. Chick

13. India

14. Reptiles

15. Whale

16. Hare

17. Yes

18. Smell

19. Dodo

20. Starfish

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   What is the scapula?

2.   What is the scientific name for the kneecap?

3.   Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?

4.   Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?

5.   What is protected by the cranium?

6.   What tube connects the Kidney to the Bladder?

7.   Where in the human body do you find the Alveoli?

8.   A bone is joined to a muscle by what structure?

9.   Where are the red blood cells made?

10.   What is the correct name for a red blood cell? 

ANSWERS

1. Shoulder Blade

2. Patella

3. Hypothalamus

4. Stomach

5. Brain

6. Ureter

7. Lung

8. Tendon

9. Bone Marrow

10. Erythrocyte

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Which group had popular hit in 1986 with ?happy hour??

2. In which film starring Humphrey Bogart did he say the very last line ?it was the stuff that dreams are made of??

3. What was the name the craft that landed in the sea of tranquillity? in July 1969?

4. What is the nickname for Torquay Utd football team?

5. In golf, by what name is two strokes on a par five hole generally known?

6. What musical bird is the only bird that can fly backwards?

7. I am the biggest bird in Australia and Africa. I have a long neck and spindly legs. What am I called in Australia?

8. The collective noun ?paddling? refers to a gaggle of which bird?

9. Which bird is said to have sung in a famous London square?

10. If a countryman said ?listen, there?s a yaffle? to what bird would he be referring? 

ANSWERS

1. The housemartin?s.

2. The Maltese falcon.

3. Eagle - moon landing module

4. The gulls.

5. An albatross.

6. Humming-bird.

7. Emu. (ostrich is the name used in Africa)

8. Ducks

9. The nightingale.

10. The woodpecker.